ASW Event Schedule, Spring 2012
African Studies Workshop
University of Chicago
Spring 2012 Schedule
(All meetings are held at 6 p.m. in Wilder House, unless otherwise noted.)
March 27:
Mark Auslander, Associate Professor, Central Washington University
Title: Ancestral Futures: Divining the Dead in Contemporary Southern African Art
Discussant: Leslie Wilson, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
April 3: (Note the changed location and time!)
George Paul Meiu, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: ”Beach-Boy Elders” and “Young Big-Men”: Queer Temporalities of Aging in Kenya’s Ethno-Erotic Economies
Discussant: Kate McHarry, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
5:00–6:30, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (5733 S. University Ave)
April 10: **Special Film Screening** (Note the special location and time!)
Les Noirs de France (Pascal Blanchard, 2012)
“Drawing on archives and testimonies, the documentary “Noirs de France” by French historian Pascal Blanchard, depicts 130 years of shared history – from 1889 to nowadays - between Black people and France. Starting in 1889 with the World’s Fair, when Black people became “visible” in French society, the film then takes us through the two World Wars, the colonial period, the struggles for independence, and the time of the migrations from Africa and the West Indies, bearing in mind the African American influence since the Interwar period.”
5:00–6:30, Cobb Hall, Room 218
April 17:
Emily Lynn Osborn, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago
Title: Our New Husbands Are Here: Households, Gender and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule (Ohio University Press, 2011)
Discussant: Paul Ocobock, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
**The discussion will focus on the introduction and chapters 2, 5 and 6, as well as pages 161-164. To request a pdf of the excerpted chapters, please contact the workshop coordinator at zdingley@uchicago.edu**
April 19–20: ***Suggested Sawyer Symposium Seminar***
Sexuality and Colonial Black Atlantic Cities Conference
“The symposium on Sexuality and Colonial Black Atlantic Cities examines how gender figures in the study of colonial Africa, the Atlantic world, and modern cities. Encompassing the period of colonialism from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in Africa, the Americas, and Europe, scholars explore what might be called “the Black Atlantic” as well as areas beyond.”
***(Please visit the conference website for more information)***
May 1:
Elizabeth Brummel, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: ”So I changed my name to Next Generation:” Narrating selves and producing futures in contemporary urban Kenya.
Discussant: Jay Schutte, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
May 8: ***Red Lion Seminar (Please note the special location!)***
Gordon Mathews, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
***Please note: The event will be held at DePaul University, 2315 North Kenmore Avenue, 4th floor, at 6:00 PM***
May 10 (at the Center for Latin American Studies, Kelly 114, 4:30–6:00):
William Summerhill, Professor, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles
Title: “From Quelimane to The City: Rio Slavers, London Bankers, and the Atlantic Origins of Representative Government in Brazil, 1796-1831”
Discussant: José Juan Pérez Meléndez
***Co-Sponsored with the Latin American History Workshop. Please note the special date, time, and location***
May 15:
Joshua Walker, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: Diamond Imagery and Extraction: Re/production in Mbujimayi, DR Congo
Discussant: Mary Robertson, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
May 16: ***Special Guest Lecture***
Danny Hoffman, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
Title: Human Garbage Lives Here: Ex-Combatants and the Struggle for Urban Space in Post-war West Africa
****This event will be held at a special time (6:30-8:00 pm) and location (Stuart Hall, Room 105). For more information, please visit the event website here.****
May 29:
Vicki Brennan, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, University of Vermont
Title: TBA
Discussant: TBA
